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Morgan Stanley has tapped former NBA star Antoine Walker, who declared bankruptcy after earning $110 million during his playing career, and former NFL player Bart Scott to present on behalf of the firm’s nascent athletes financial advisory practice.
Walker and Scott have already talked to a ...

M ore than 20 years after injury cut short Jeff Jackson ’s career as an NHL player, he is an agent representing the most anticipated hockey prospect in years, Connor McDavid .
McDavid, a center, is expected to be taken No. 1 overall by ...

Recently retired MLB Commissioner Bud Selig has hired Sandy Montag of IMG as his agent to represent him in selling the rights to a book about his life and baseball.
Montag will also represent Selig for speaking engagements, consulting and other matters.
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The domestic violence scandals that rocked the NFL last year not only did not dent the league’s revenue, which is projected to hit a record high of more than $12 billion in 2015, they also did not hurt corporate America’s demand for players.
The NFL Players Association’s licensi ...

For the fourth year in a row, NFL Players Association licensing income from Electronic Arts came in far off the levels seen in the pre-lockout years, before 2011.
For the year ending Feb. 28, 2015, EA paid the union $2.8 million for the right to use NFL players in the popular “Madden” ...

Creative Artists Agency is doubling down on the hospitality business.
The Hollywood agency has acquired two corporate hospitality firms, Beyond Sports & Entertainment and Goviva, and is rolling them up with its existing practice to form a high-end hospitality, events and experience division c ...

A federal judge is set to hear later this month what could be final arguments in a case involving a more than $500,000 arbitration award of fees and loans that prominent NFL agent Drew Rosenhaus contends his former client, Washington Redskins w ...

Relativity Sports has signed U.S. women’s soccer team goalkeeper Hope Solo as its first female athlete client for exclusive representation in all areas.
Solo will be represented by CEO Happy Walters and Heather Brooks Karatz, vice president of legal. Solo was formerly represented by Wasserm ...

CAA Sports and ASM Sports are representing several high-profile NBA prospects and both are poised to have big drafts next month.
IN A RHYTHM
Agencies with the most first-round NBA draft picks for each of the last five years.
2014
CAA Sports: 6
Wasserman Media Group: 5
Prior ...